Kieran O'Donnell (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The CSO would have seen the extreme variance between the preliminary figure of 6.7% and the final figure of 26%. As an independent body, knowing how the markets would react, why did the CSO not give the detail that would allow them to strip out the exceptional items of intellectual property and so on? Did the CSO not present two figures, one being the actual figure and the other being the real, ongoing figure with the exceptional items stripped out?